Defending the jungles, mountains, forests and rivers of Latin America has never been this dangerous. Six of the ten most hostile countries for leaders and communities defending the environment and their ancestral lands are located in Latin America, according to UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst’s 2016 report to United Nations. This is why 30 journalists, […]
The family chose not to report so far for fear of retaliation or that the investigations would be halted
Arqueólogos retrataron las pinturas rupestres del medio río Orinoco con un detalle nunca antes logrado para contestar una vieja: ¿cómo se relacionaron las culturas amazónicas, con las de los Llanos, las guyanesas y las de la Orinoquía antes de la llegada de los españoles? ¿Será el arte rupestre de ese lugar suficiente para responderla? […]
El desarrollo de la región tiene en alerta roja al mayor pulmón del mundo. Investigadores amazónicos del Sinchi, en Colombia, llevan más de una década encontrándose para solucionar problemas. Esta es la crómica de la última ocasión. Por Camila Taborda Desde el avión, las áreas deforestadas de la Amazonia son como baldosas en medio de […]
The Global Forest Change project, developed by Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland, monitors forests using algorithms to distinguish changes in forest cover using satellite images.
The governments of Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom made its first payment to Colombia for having complied with the reduction of deforestation between 2013 and 2014.
After disagreements, the chief Mapu also said that the former councilor Allison Lima wanted to keep indigenous’ money and appointed him as the author of death threats, but the political denies.
Infiltrated among riparian that will be withdrawn by the hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, Arlindo buys land that will be flooded to receive compensation.
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